---
title: "Get inspection category"
slug: "management-cloud-advisor-categories"
updated: 2026-09-17T10:05:38Z
published: 2026-09-17T10:05:38Z
canonical: "api.ncloud-docs.com/management-cloud-advisor-categories"
---

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# Get inspection category

Available in VPC

Get an inspection category provided by the Cloud Advisor service.

## Request

This section describes the request format. The method and URI are as follows:

| Method | URI |
| --- | --- |
| GET | /api/v1/categories |

### Request headers

For information about the headers common to all Cloud Advisor APIs, see [Cloud Advisor request headers](/docs/en/management-cloud-advisor-overview#%EC%9A%94%EC%B2%AD%ED%97%A4%EB%8D%94).

### Request example

The request example is as follows:

```
curl --location --request GET 'https://cloud-advisor.apigw.ntruss.com/api/v1/categories' \
--header 'x-ncp-apigw-timestamp: {Timestamp}' \
--header 'x-ncp-iam-access-key: {Access Key}' \
--header 'x-ncp-apigw-signature-v2: {API Gateway Signature}'
```

## Response

This section describes the response format.

### Response body

The response body includes the following data:

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `result` | String | - | API processing result - `SUCCESS` \| `FAIL` - `SUCCESS`: succeeded - `FAIL`: failed |
| `contents` | Array | - | Inspection category list: [contents](/docs/en/management-cloud-advisor-categories#contents) |

#### `contents`

The following describes `contents`.

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `categoryCode` | String | - | Inspection category code |
| `categoryName` | String | - | Inspection category code name |

### Response status codes

For response status codes common to all Cloud Advisor APIs, see [Cloud Advisor response status codes](/docs/en/management-cloud-advisor-overview#%EC%9D%91%EB%8B%B5%EC%83%81%ED%83%9C%EC%BD%94%EB%93%9C).

### Response example

The response example is as follows:

```
{
    "result": "SUCCESS",
    "contents": [
        {
            "categoryCode": "SECURITY",
            "categoryName": "Security"
        },
        {
            "categoryCode": "COST",
            "categoryName": "Expense and high utilization"
        }
    ]
}
```